Comments on: 5 Things Your Child’s Teacher Wants You to Know About School Projects https://booksandgiggles.com/school-projects-parents/ Sun, 30 Jul 2017 06:14:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: How Parents Can Support School Projects https://booksandgiggles.com/school-projects-parents/#comment-2119 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 06:14:57 +0000 https://booksandgiggles.com/2016/01/school-projects-parents/#comment-2119 […] 5 Things Teachers Want You to Know About School Projects from Books and Giggles […]

]]> By: FarZain https://booksandgiggles.com/school-projects-parents/#comment-370 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:48:20 +0000 https://booksandgiggles.com/2016/01/school-projects-parents/#comment-370 Great insight! Thank you for sharing #Madeforkids

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]]> By: Heather https://booksandgiggles.com/school-projects-parents/#comment-367 Sat, 09 Jan 2016 08:33:09 +0000 https://booksandgiggles.com/2016/01/school-projects-parents/#comment-367 In reply to Natalie PlanetSmartyPants.

I agree with you now that I'm a parent of school aged kids.

I think one reason teachers send projects home is time constraints at school. Kids work at vastly different paces on their projects, and there is always more curriculum to cover than it feels like there is time for.

I think different schools handle in-school projects differently too – with some there is a big push for project based learning, and a lot of support for that to happen during the school day. At other schools, projects are used as enrichment at the end of a traditionally taught unit, and less time is available to complete projects in class.

]]> By: Heather https://booksandgiggles.com/school-projects-parents/#comment-366 Sat, 09 Jan 2016 08:24:02 +0000 https://booksandgiggles.com/2016/01/school-projects-parents/#comment-366 In reply to Christy McGuire.

I have the same concern as a parent. As a teacher, I tried to have the kids work on part of the project at school so I could see what they were achieving independently. Then if the project came out vastly different we'd have a "talk" about how that happened.

]]> By: Natalie PlanetSmartyPants https://booksandgiggles.com/school-projects-parents/#comment-365 Sat, 09 Jan 2016 03:42:44 +0000 https://booksandgiggles.com/2016/01/school-projects-parents/#comment-365 It's interesting to hear a teacher's perspective. As a parent, I would like to know – if the projects are so great, why don't students do them in school where they already spend a lion's share of their time?

]]> By: Christy McGuire https://booksandgiggles.com/school-projects-parents/#comment-363 Fri, 08 Jan 2016 20:24:55 +0000 https://booksandgiggles.com/2016/01/school-projects-parents/#comment-363 Important points! I am curious how you handled projects done by parents? As a parent I sometimes wort that my children will become discouraged because they compare what they have done independently to what others' parents have done.

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